The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 110

He ordered his servants to bring a pile of skins for Thakane to sit on, but told her father he must sit on the ground.

Who acts: Koane, servants · What happens: order, bring, sit on, tell, sit · To what, where: servants, pile, father, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koane, servants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servants	nmod:poss
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pile	det
8	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 skins	case
10	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pile	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 Thakane	case
12	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 skins	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sit	mark
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bring	advcl
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 sit	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ordered	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	iobj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sit	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sit	aux
23	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	ccomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	order	past	Koane	Koane's servants			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	Koane's servants not said here	a pile of skins for Thakane			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pile=Theme
3	sit on	to-infinitive	Koane's servants not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Koane not said here		ogre's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
5	sit	must	Koane			the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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